COACHING RUNNERS 
WHERE THE SCIENCE OF PERFORMANCE MEETS WHOLEHEARTED COACHING.
Professional guidance grounded in care, connection, and purposeful training to help every runner feel supported and reach their potential.
1:1 Coaching
Our most comprehensive service with unlimited support and adjustments. Programming is built around your unique goals, life, and season of running. You’ll feel guided every step of the way.
Custom Training Plans
A great option if you don’t need ongoing communication, adjustments, or feedback from a coach but want a training plan designed specifically for you.
Strength Training
Monthly subscription with workouts, warm-up routines, mobility, and core work designed to help you build strength that powers your running.
Runners who want to train with intention, from first 5Ks to sub‑elite performance.
Our coaching services are designed to support you through every season of life and running. Each service blends science-backed training with whole-person care and includes access to the Pace of Me community and a library of resources that go beyond the miles, such as team calls with registered dietitians, sports psychologists, physical therapists, and professional runners who help strengthen every part of your running journey.
Whether you’re building your foundation, chasing a breakthrough, or leveling up your competitive edge, we meet you exactly where you are and help you move forward with clarity and purpose.
A COACHING EXPERIENCE BUILT ON EXPERTISE, CONNECTION, AND CARE.
Science-Backed Training
Evidence-based programming designed for real-world performance.
Whole-Person Approach
Coaching that honors your life, your body, and your goals.
High-Touch Support
Thoughtful communication and real-time adjustments every step of the way.
Community Driven
Rooted in the Triangle area of North Carolina and present at races worldwide, we host shakeouts, race-week activations, and regular team calls with sports psychologists, registered dietitians, physical therapists, and pro runners to support athletes in every season of life and running.
Running changes lives.
Pace of Me began in 2009 as a personal blog where Jess wrote honestly about the joy, struggle, and transformation that running brought into her life. Those stories resonated. Runners connected with the vulnerability, the encouragement, and the reminder that running can help people become who they’re meant to be.
From that space, Jess began coaching her first athlete. One athlete became a few. A few became a small, tight-knit community. What they shared was a need for support that honored the whole person and a belief that running changes lives.
Today, Pace of Me Coaching is a team of four coaches, Jess, Michelle, Steph, and Maddie, united by the same belief in the power of running and the same commitment to supporting athletes with clarity, intention, and care.
Wholehearted coaching for runners at every step + stage of the journey
Coaching runners and seeking better ways to live a balanced, fulfilled and joyful life - one step at a time.
Our mission is to help others discover and celebrate their own strength and joy through the pursuit of their potential. We love to guide, motivate, support and celebrate people on the run at every step and stage of the journey.
Hi, welcome to pace of me!
Our number one priority with coaching all of our athletes is offering wholehearted support and professional guidance, applying our knowledge of and passion for the science of training and racing to each individual’s goals and needs. We believe that we perform our best when we are healthy and happy, and work hard to get to know each person we coach. This enables us to create training plans and paths to success that suit their lifestyles, challenge them to grow and also encourage them to seek and discover a deeper sense of fulfillment they might not have known was possible throughout the process. Personal run coaching is about running and so much more, just like the sport itself!
Run Coaching
The Pace of Me coaching style is customized and personal. Our coaches care very much about the people we work with, applying our extensive knowledge and experience to guide each individual towards their goals through the ups and downs of running and life.
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